SukkahSoul Chuppah Kit

is a freestanding chuppah structure covered with fabric netting.

This chuppah offers spiritual meaning with a form influenced by text and sources.

The Sukkah Soul chuppah can be decorated with flowers and decorations. If the couple has a custom chuppah, it can be attached to the fabric netting or used instead of the fabric netting.

Architect Designed

Sukkah Soul offers Jewish objects of celebration designed by an architect. This is one of the items available.

Chuppah adapts
as a Sukkah

The chuppah can be adapted into a sukkah and enjoyed year after year at Sukkot.

Sukkot 2008 begins at sunset
Monday, October 13,
14 Tishrei 5769, the full moon.
Many put up sukkahs right after Yom Kippur, October 9.

Influences for the Chuppah and its adaptation as a Sukkah

The SukkahSoul chuppah is influenced by traditional texts and sources renewed with a delicate spiritual energy.

The design is influenced by the Hasidic teacher The Sefat Emet and by the imagery of the Sefirot and Zohar.

The sukkah
is like a chuppah,

according to the Sefat Emet, implying the marriage of man and wife. At the exodus from Egypt Israel was sanctified (‘wedded’) to G*d.

It is also written (in the prayer book) “who spreads out (pores) a sukkah of peace.” But the word pores also means ”to divide” or “to choose a portion,” for “G*d’s portion is the people Israel” (Deut. 32:9).

G*d is wholeness itself. Why then choose a fragment of something? Wherever G*d dwells there is wholeness. G*d makes a whole out of half.

Thus the meaning of “who spreads (pores) a sukkah of peace.” The inner point that is everywhere is wholeness. This is Israel among G*d’s creatures.

adapted from The Language of Truth
by Arthur Green

Sefirot / Shekhinah / Zohar

Through the language of the Sefirot, G*d is expressed in ten manifestations or emanations, as it were, like kindness, strength and beauty. All of these manifestations have avenues of connection to one another. We imagine these energies in triangles forming triads of relationships. The energy closest to us is the Shekhinah. The Zohar states in Parshat Terumah that one must make a beautiful chuppah out of respect to the Shekhinah that rests there.

 

Hesed—Abraham
For I have said: The world shall be built with kindness.  Psalms 89:3

Gevurah—Isaac
Yours is the arm with strength, show us the
power of Your hand, raise high Your right hand.  Psalms 89:14

Tiferet—Jacob
Grant truth to Jacob, kindness to Abraham. Michah 7:20

Netzah—Moses
There is delight at Your
right hand for triumph. Psalms 16:11

Hod—Aaron
Hashem, our Lord, how mighty is Your Name throughout the earth; for it were fit that You place Your splendor above the heavens. Psalms 8:2

Yesod—Joseph
Hashem is righteous in all His ways; virtuous in all
His deeds. Psalms 145:17

Shekhinah—David
In the merit of him who stood in the granary and
was shown favor with fire.